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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account Of The Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
2 reviews
nadiajohnsonbooks's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
I was already a fan of Krakauer, having been at various times in my life obsessed with Into the Wild and Under the Banner of Heaven.
Well, this time he really broke me. I can't stop thinking about Mount Everest and about high altitude disasters.
What Krakauer and his companions endured in 1996 is one of the most harrowing things I've ever read. His reflections of his own grief, the other survivors' reactions, the true misery that they endured during the disaster...I'm honestly haunted by it. It had me sobbing.
Krakauer was clearly deep in his own trauma when he wrote it, and you can tell.
My respect for him as a journalist, a mountaineer, and a human being is higher than it's ever been.
Well, this time he really broke me. I can't stop thinking about Mount Everest and about high altitude disasters.
What Krakauer and his companions endured in 1996 is one of the most harrowing things I've ever read. His reflections of his own grief, the other survivors' reactions, the true misery that they endured during the disaster...I'm honestly haunted by it. It had me sobbing.
Krakauer was clearly deep in his own trauma when he wrote it, and you can tell.
My respect for him as a journalist, a mountaineer, and a human being is higher than it's ever been.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Grief
Moderate: Blood, Colonisation, and Excrement
Minor: Deadnaming, Vomit, Drug use, and Alcohol
danimacuk's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Grief
Moderate: Cursing, Medical trauma, and Abandonment
Minor: Medical content, Drug use, Excrement, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, and Vomit
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